The Week.

diet of "Accidental Death was returned . Mr . E . T . Smith announces that so long as he is proprietor of the gardens such exhibitions as that in going through which Valerio iost his life shall not again take place in them . A boiler explosion , attended with lamentable results , occurred at Morley , near Leeds , on Saturday evening . Eight persons were killed , several others were injured , while a considerable amount of property was destroyed or damaged . The cause of the explosion is not stated . Sir Joshua Jcbb died Yery suddenly on Monday . While riding to his office on an omnibus

he fell senseless into the arms of a friend who was with him at the time , and on being taken down it was discovered that lie was dead . Another death has resulted from starvation . An inquest bus been held on " a man unknown , " about 50 years of age , who died in a common lodging-house . The immediate cause of death was proved to be rupture of the aorta , but the predisposing cause was undoubtedly want of food . -The inquest on the sufferers by the recent railway accident at Streatliam came to a close on Wednesdnj-. The jury

returned a verdict of accidental death , coupling therewith a recommendation that the express trains trains on the Brighton line should be run at a less rate of speed . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor of the French has addressed a letter to the new President of the Council of State , recommending the adoption of a scheme of administrative decentralisation . The Emperor points out the disadvantages which arise from the present centralised systemand the vast waste of time caused by the

sub-, mitting of so many purely local questions to several different authorities . The Emperor declares that be personally lays great stress upon the necessity of a reform in the direction he indicates , and therefore urges the Council of State , to endeavour to arrive at some speedy and satisfactory arrangement . The Emperor went to Paris and presided at a Council of Ministers on Monday , returning in the evening to Fontainebleau . La France states that the Russian answer to tho notes of the three great Powers is not expected for a week . An

Imperial decree is published in the Monitcur , ordering that a universal exhibition shall open in Paris in 18 C 7 . A great five took place in Nantes the day before yesterday , which destroyed fifteen large factories . The Monitcur of Monday also published a decree abolishing the restrictions hitherto maintained in the baking trade . This decree will take effect from the 1 st of the approaching September . The Imperial Court of Grenoble has given judgment in the case of M . Casimir Perier , charged with writing against the Government . M . Perier is pronounced not guilty . The notes of England , France , and Austria on the Polish question were handed to Prince Gortschakoff on Saturday . The Memorial Diplomatique , of Paris , asserts that it has authority for announcing that the basis of the collective demands

will be accepted by Russia , although some modification of detail may be proposed , and that Russia will recommend St . Petersburg as the seat of the next Conference . On the other hand the three Powers , this journal asserts , will suggest , that Brussels be the place , anil Russia is expected to agree to this arrangement . General MouraviofF has issued an order for the establishment of a military and civil administrative tribunal for the purpose of suppressing rebellion in the governments of Wilna , Kowno , Grodno , Minsk , and others over which his

authority ranges . A war police council , from whose decision there shall be no appeal , is to be nominated in each of these divisions , and on these councils is to be enjoined , by a series of the most stern and impressive instructions , the task of suppressing every attempt at or indication of an insurrectionary movement . Confiscation of property and trial by court-martial arc to be the punishment of every offence . Military law is threatened agaii . st all priests who fail in loyal duty . . 'Che Polish National Government is said to have taken the bold step of

prohibiting all traffic on the railways connecting Warsaw with St . Petetsbuvgh and with Prussia . AU the officials , of whatever kind , connected with those linos , are ordered to leave their places immediately . If this order be genuine there will be a ready means furnished to test the veal extent of the power which the National Government exercises . During the debate on the address in the Austrian Lower Chamber , Count Recbberg stated that the policy of Austria is one of peace abroad , combined with the due preservation

of the rights of the empirc-r-a declaration which is accepted as reassuring by some of those who hare lately been indulging in wild alarms about the imminence of European war . The Crown Prince of Prussia has addressed a letter to the head of the Provincial Government of l ' ossen , thanking the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy for the warm reception lately given to him . The Portuguese Chambers were closed on Tuesday by the King in person . His Majesty ' s speech contained nothing of general interest . The

province of Granada in Spain has been visited by several shocks of earthquake . We do not hear that Joss of life or much damage has resulted . The Bags has published intelligence from Mexico confirming the statement th .-uVGcnei-al Ortega and five other superior officers escaped from Orizaba on the 20 th of May . It appears from other accounts that an attempt made by General Forey to pledge the Mexican officers not to take any further part in the war under any circumstances had been indignantly rejectedThe Maniteur of

. yesterday published G ' eu . Forey ' s final report of the operations before Puebla , which terminated in the capture of the city . The General denies that the Mexican forces surrendered because of the want of provisions and ammunition . The defeat of Comonfort , and the success of the attacts upon the fortified places alone , he declare ? , caused the surrender .

The Week.

AMEKICA . —The important announcement of a great movement of General Lee ' s army , and of an invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania , has been brought by the Persia . It appears that all General Lee's army had been set in motion , and that a great body of Confederates bad entered the Shenandoah Valley , had driven the Federal Genetal Milroy—with a loss esthmteil by himself at 2000 men—from Winchester to Harper ' s Ferry , and bad obtained some advantages at other places . A considerable corps then crossed the Potomac into Marylandand occupied Hagarstownand afterwards advanced into

, , Pennsylvania , as far as Greencnstle and Chambersburg . It was not known whether General Lee himself was or was not in the Shenandoah Galley ; but one report affirmed that he was not , and that he had crossed the Tipper Rappahannock , and was moving towards Wavrenton . Extraordinary alarm had been caused throughout Pennsylvania and the neighbouring state by General Lee ' s movements . President Lincoln had issued a proclamation , calling for 100 , 000 men from the militia of Pennsylvania , New York , West Virginia , and

Ohio . All men able to bear arms had been summoned to the field in Pennsylvania , and the Government of New York , New Jersey , and Maryland were promptly responding to the appeals made to them , and were organising troops for the assistance of Pennsylvania . As soon as General Lee's march was known . General Hooker abandoned Falmouth , and marched with his army towards Washington , establishing his head-quarters at Warrenton : There was a rumour in New-York on the night of the IGth inst . that the Oth of his

corps army had been cut off , surrounded , aud captured by the Confederate forces . The most various and conflicting reports wove current in the North respecting General Lee ' s designs , and merely served to show that his designs were really unknown to his enemies . Some asserted that he ho intended to fight a great battle in or near the field of Bull Run ; others that he contemplated an attack on Baltimore or Washington ; others that lie intended to enter Pennsylvania with his main army ; and others again that he proposed to march to the Uhioand operate

, in the north-west , and that bis other movements were merely intended to mask -and cover that operation . There was no important news from the south-west ; later advices from Vicksburg and Port Hudson merely announcing that tho sieges were progressing . A Confederate cruizcv , a prize of the steamer Florida , had captured

several vessels within 50 or GO miles of the Capes of Virginia , to the intense vexation of the Northern shipowners and of the Secretary of the Navy , who had immediately ordered some 30 ships of war to proceed in chase of this audacious rover . The news brought by the America is to the 20 th June . It contains copious details of the proceedings of the Confederates under Lee . From these it is pretty clemthat the intention of that General is to attack Washington . His forces are marching on that city in three columns , one of which is said

to be directed to Occoquan , where it will cross the Potomac , and attack Washington an its left ; another column marches on Leeshurg to cross the Potomac there and attack the capital on its right ; and the third column is directed agai nst Fairfax and the front of Washington . Vicksburg bad not fallen at the latest dates , but Grant was pushing it very bard , and there was no appearance whatever of any attempt to relieve the place by Johnstone . The Nova Scolian brings a < ew hours' later news than the America . It is to the effect that the

Confederates had advanced to C ' entrovillo anil defeated the Federals there . If that be true , Lee is within a short distance of Washington . Longstreet was threatening Lcesburg , and Hill was at Dumfries . Hagarstown has been taken possession of by the Confederates , and it was said that they intended to make it their head-quarters for raids into Pennsylvania . IsiitA AND CUINA . —The Calcutta and China mails bring further news relative other mattersto the important intelligence

, among , peevionsly telegraphed , that the British authorities bad extended : the time for the acceptance of the ultimatum by the Japanese to the 11 th of May . The China Mail says .- — " Win- is considered to be imminent . The Japanese are reported to be active . The hosts of war are actually gathering together , and thousands of bright blades already rattle in their scabbards "' The same journal gives detailsof the defeat of the Tacping rebels , and the capture of Tai-tsan by the Anglo-Chinese force under Major Gordon . The numbers engagedi

were about 3000 on either side , and 200 or 300 Imperialists were killed . Captain Bannon fell mortally wounded when mounting thebreach . Two other European officers were severely wounded . From , Rangoon we learn that the cholera has broken out among the European troops there , 21 persons having died in four days . In-Bengal very great dissatisfaction was being expressed against Sir-Charles Wood's Amalgamation Act .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

A . B . —Not quite nine years , SUSSEX . —We do not know the person named , and certainly nevrr gave him authority to use our name . J . W . —Make an appointment , and we will keep it if we receive reasonable notice . AN INSTRUCTOR , —The Book of Constitutions is published nnder the authority of Grand Lodge . It is at present undergoingrevision .